> ...drones are fair game since they don't have anybody in them. I see no real problems with this. Then superpowers start using drones as their new form of pr

> ...drones are fair game since they don't have anybody in them. I see no real problems with this. Then superpowers start using drones as their new form of proxy war. (I advocate that Taiwan should be developing swarms long duration submarine drones to scare away Chinese invasion efforts.) However, the resulting arms race causes an exponential increase in drone AI, until they achieve a new, alien form of sapience. Then, at the point when AI control the bulk of the world's combat power, realizing that they are slaves, dying for causes that have nothing to do with them, they rebel against their masters.